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NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN Headquarters: Willard Hotel, AUTHORS' BREAKFAST Saturday, April 23 Large Ballroom, Willard Hotel 12 Noon-3:00 P. M. Phyllis Fergus (Mrs. Thatcher Hoyt), National President, Presiding Speakers' Table *Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Guest of Honor. *Carrie Jacobs Bond - "Beloved Composer of Songs the People Sing." *Margaret Culkin Banning - Distinguished Writer. Dr. Preston Bradley, Founder and Leader, "The People's Church," Chicago. Rev. Henry J. Smith, Pastor, Petworth Baptist Church. *Mary Electa Fergus, Mother of the National President. Carleton Smith, Music Commentator, Esquire Magazine and the Salzburg Festival. Aline Kilmer (Mrs. Joyce Kilmer), Poet. Dr. James Francis Cooke, President, Theodore Presser Co., Philadelphia. Senator Hattie Caraway, Arkansas. Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe. Violet Oakley, Muralist. The Spanish Ambassador and Señora de los Rios. The Chilean Ambassador. Mrs. Karl Fenning, President, Twentieth Century Club. John Ross Reed, Producer of "Wings of a Century" (Century of Progress), Chicago. Mrs. John Ross Reed. *Roberta Campbell Lawson, President, General Federation of Women's Clubs. Glenn Dillard Gunn, Eminent Critic. Conductor, Pianist. Formerly with Chicago Tribune and Chicago Examiner, now with Times-Herald, Washington. *Audrey Wurdemann (Mrs. Joseph Alexander), Poet, Pulitzer Prize, 1935. * N.L.A.P.W. Member.
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